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| Strange_Stray_Cat |
...charges 700 euro for an O2 ticket...
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| Mel Belli |
And look who turns up -- none other than Michael Cohl:
The Independent (London)
May 1, 2007
Streisand fans count the cost of diva's concert
By Andy McSmith
She may have been a funny girl once but punters were not laughing at the ticket prices for Barbra Streisand's next UK concert.
The cheapest tickets, which go on sale on Friday, have a face value of £100, while the best seats are officially available at £500. Yesterday, one independent agency was offering a small number of tickets for prices ranging from £375 to £850.
Streisand's one-off London gig, on 18 July, makes even the eye-watering prices charged by the likes of Madonna and the Rolling Stones seem cheap by comparison. But a spokesman for a star defended the high prices. "Seeing Barbra Streisand in concert is a pretty momentous occasion that ranks up there with seeing Sinatra or Elvis. If you think that FA Cup final tickets are going for £1,600, you get some sort of context," he told the Evening Standard.
Now 65, Streisand is the music industry's biggest-selling female artist , and second only to Elvis Presley in the all-time charts, ahead of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. She has not performed in the UK since 1994, and seldom been seen on stage anywhere since the break-up of her marriage to the actor James Brolin in 1998.
According to her manager, Martin Erlichman, last year's US tour, her first in six years, broke box-office records in 14 of the 16 venues she played. In the other two, she already held the record. Her London gig, to be held at the Millennium Dome, now called The O2, will include a 58-piece orchestra. She will perform old hits such as "The Way We Were", "Evergreen" and "People".
It will be the final gig in a European tour that takes in Vienna, Paris, Nice and her first ever gig in Ireland, on 14 July at Castletown House near Dublin. Some of the proceeds would go to the Barbra Streisand Foundation, which supports causes such as the environment, civil rights and disadvantaged youngsters.
Her tour is being organ-ised by Concert Productions International (CPI), which also organised the Rolling Stones "A Bigger Bang" tour and The Who's world tour. CPI's founder, Michael Cohl, said: "It is an amazing show - a once-in-a-lifetime experience not to be missed."
The star's reaction, according to her publicity people, was to exclaim: "What a joy it will be to perform in so many wonderful countries for the first time. I can't wait to experience these different audiences and different cultures."
In a career that began at a gay bar in New York in 1960, Streisand has chalked up 13 multi-platinum albums, two Oscars, four Emmys, 10 Golden Globes and eight Grammys.
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| oldkr |
She's no elton thats for sure... mind you from the look of that pic....
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| Martha |
When did her marriage to James Brolin end? |
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| Gazza |
>Now 65, Streisand is the music industry's biggest-selling female artist , and second only to Elvis Presley in the all-time charts, ahead of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
what absolute bollocks.....
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| Gazza |
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Strange_Stray_Cat wrote:
...charges 700 euro for an O2 ticket...
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The Stones are effectively charging far more than that when you consider that the obscenely priced Fan Asylum tickets are your only way of getting the best seats. |
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| Martha |
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Gazza wrote:
>Now 65, Streisand is the music industry's biggest-selling female artist , and second only to Elvis Presley in the all-time charts, ahead of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
what absolute bollocks.....
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Does this mean you aren't going to see Babs? |
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| sammy davis jr. |
People....people screwing people....... |
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| Joey |
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sammy davis jr. wrote:
People....people screwing people.......
That's what my little friends and myself running around the Plains of Nebraska with knickers on and stick ball bats in our hands used to call "Postin'!"
You're POSTIN' baby!
The Joey - As seen on the reality show "That's Postin'!", 10:00 PM CDT Sundays.
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Joey wrote:
That's what my little friends and myself running around the Plains of Nebraska with knickers on and stick ball bats in our hands used to call "Postin'!"
You're POSTIN' baby!
The Joey - As seen on the reality show "That's Postin'!", 10:00 PM CDT Sundays.
There is only one!!
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| Gazza |
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Martha wrote:
Does this mean you aren't going to see Babs?
Not even if she was singing in my back garden |
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| glencar |
She's really gross now. |
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| Martha |
Will Joey be flying in for the show glencar? |
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| TampabayStone |
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Martha wrote:
Will Joey be flying in for the show glencar?
Martha,
From what I have heard on the streets is that Joey does not leave Omaha...It's true...
Joey?!
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
I don't understand her appeal. |
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| killerbitch |
Is she still married to James Brolin? I did not hear she was divorced.
I would not see her if she was singing for free at a bus stop. |
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| glencar |
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Martha wrote:
Will Joey be flying in for the show glencar?
He only takes Trailways that way he can "make some change" during the restroom breaks. |
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| Paranoid_Android |
FOREVER YENTL!!! |
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| Strange_Stray_Cat |
I will be attending all London shows! |
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| Highwire Rob |
This thread has the power and promise to bring JB back!
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| Strange_Stray_Cat |
quote:
Highwire Rob wrote:
This thread has the power and promise to bring JB back!
He will be back to see Streisand. It is expensive, so he will be there. |
